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Chapter Four:
Hell Has No Fury
(Like a Witch Scorn)
I spent the night with the Morris family. Easily the longest day in my life and I was answering any and all Jasmine's questions. She is the only mortal or innocent that knows everything because I REFUSE to lie or hide things from her. She is my best friend and has always had my back even when I got my powers. When others has discover my powers she was the one that helped me look like it was some sort of trick. We have been friends since what, five years old?
The night after Cole came by with Leo to come get me. "Your aunts are bonding." Leo explain as we walked all the way home instead of shimmering or orbing. It's a nice night to walk anyway. We got to the house and Paige has already left.
"You missed Mom being here." Piper told me softly. She's content about everything now.
"Nana got to bond with Paige too?" I ask and she nod her head moving her arm so I could curl up with her on the couch. "Do I need to call her Aunt?"
"You don't call us Aunt unless you want something." Phoebe comment and I smile to her.
Shaking my head slightly and laughing. "Not completely true." I yawn and went to my room crawling in to my bed.
I had the dream of mom dying and Leo not coming fast enough to save her. With a jolt awake and tears going down my face I crawl out of bed and went up the stairs to the kitchen. Sitting down I debate who I should go to. Finally I just let my feet take me where I want to really be. Walking up the stairs I end up in front of Phoebe's room and softly knock on the door. "Huh?" I heard someone groan, I smile at the male's voice slightly.
"Sorry to wake you." I said opening the door a crack. "Safe to come in?" I ask slowly choosing my words carefully.
I can see him move but not see anything as he went around the bed tightening his drawstrings of his pants. "Yeah, come on, lets let your aunt sleep." He said leading me back downstairs. We got on the couch in the living room and I curl up to his side. He had his arm drape over me and let me stayed there on his bare chest. His breathing soothes and I am not completely sure why.
"I am still sorry." I mumble sleepily.
"Don't be, you had a nightmare." He said softly with a yawn. I smile slightly as he moved my hair down and tame it with his fingers a comforting motion. He is always like this but only with Phoebe or me. I guess cause she is his love and I am like a daughter to him. I have always been not just mom's daughter but Piper, Phoebe, and Gram's daughter too. "Sleep." He said softly and slowly sleep seep over me till I couldn't stay awake any longer and I was out.
The morning I woke up to birds chirping and singing of the wind through the tress. No, not really. I woke up to a grumpy Cole growling at Piper who was upset that I didn't go to her. "He was closer." I yawn out and Phoebe hand me a cup of coffee. "Thank you." I yawn again.
"Still don't understand why you didn't come to my room." Piper grumble as she walk away.
I sigh sipping my coffee as the 'adults' talked. Piper and Phoebe were about to go out with Cole to vanquish demons. Here is the thing I find funny, they are scrying form them instead of letting the demons come to us, which is what normally happens. I tend to start to ignore them.
Over the next week it's been the same things. Time is starting to seem to pass faster now. Piper is on a demon rampage and is insisting they hunt more down. Cole looks aggravated and tired of it all as Phoebe is worried. The week past in the same way really. I sat at home clean, hang out with Jasmine, and play peacemaker when Cole and Phoebe argue with Piper over hunting down these demons.
I sat in the attic as Piper and Phoebe argue again over this. "Do you have to deface the book?" Phoebe snap as Piper drew a huge X over a demon they just vanquish.
I roll my eyes not wanting to get involve with this. "I'm going to the Morris house!" I call over my shoulder walking away. I ran downstairs and went to the front of the house grabbing my boots. I had them on and was out the door before anything could happen. I then had to stop. I smelt something that smell so familiar but I don't know what it is. Peppermint and something else. I sniff the air again but it was gone. I frown looking around and not seeing anything. Strange.
Shaking my head clear I ran down the street and quickly twist and turn down the roads. Before long I was already outside of the Morris home. I smile as I got to the door and took out my key slipping it in and turn the door. Inside sitting on the couch in the living room after closing and re-locking it is a tall dark skin girl with chocolate eyes. She look up when I came in. She wipe her eyes and look down at her hands. "What's wrong, Jazzy?" I asked sitting beside her fixing her hair and moving to table getting a tissue and wiping her face with it to get the last of the tears.
She just cry more dropping herself in to my arms. I squeeze her tightly and close my eyes. "Gra-Granny just to-told," she cried.
"Told what?" I ask softly as the black older lady came in. She has always been cold-hearted to Jasmine and me. She looks like an older female version of Dyrral. "Told her what?" I ask the woman as she scuff at me like I'm a piece of trash. "Jazzy, do you want to go to our spot?" I ask her pulling her away from my shirt. She nod her head not talking as tears left her eyes again.
I glare at the older woman helping the younger girl up and out the front door after unlocking it. "Shelia, change the locks!" The older woman yelled in the house before I got the door close making Jazzy cry more. Her blue jeans and red shirt are twisted and her shoes are just plain converses.
We got out of the neighborhood and got to the local convince store. Once there I went in with her. She went to the bathroom to clean up and I got our drinks and snacks. As I sat down at the outside booth she came out to me and sat beside me leaning against me. "So want to explain?" I ask softly opening my skittles and her m&ms then the cup I bought between us after pouring all of them in to the cup together.
She smile to the cup with little joy she does get out of getting skittles and m&ms mix up then the smile went away. Drinking a sip of her drink she look to me. "Granny said I was adopted. Wasn't even wanted just happen." She said and sniffle.
I shook my head at her. "Even if you were adopted, do Mama treat you any different to her son?" I ask and she stop thinking about it. She knows as I that her sons are biologically their.
After a moment she smile hugging me. "No she doesn't. Neither does Daddy."
We talked for a bit till a few others of our friends, but none knows my secret besides Jazzy, came over. A boy a year younger than us, Devyn, and same age as him along with a boy our age his twin sisters who are two years younger than us. Devyn, the youngest boy is about shoulder height with blond hair and dark streaks, he has hazel blue eyes that is hard to see behind his glasses and his hair covers parts of his face.
The twins are Lane and Lace, both dark skin Indians from India, as is their brother, Jacob. The last of them is the girl who is Devyn's age. Her black curly hair and deep sea green eyes look up to us. She is normally quiet unless talking to Devyn who is soft spoken himself. They have always gave each other glances and looks that Jazzy and I can place that they have feelings for each other but cause of age and how long they have known each other we also know they would never admit it. They are cute together. Our mix-match group has always been push out of crowds. We are either the group everyone wants to be in or the group everyone hates. Either way no one really messes with us, most of all when we are together.
I smile to my friends as we all talked and joked. "I did not do that! Prove it was me." I said about the gravy incident.
"He said he can't prove it was you because you were in front of him as was Jazzy but he knows it was, or at least he knows you had to do with it. Who did it?" Jacob explain then ask.
I laugh. "Don't know." I lied with a shrug. He gave me a doubtful look but then left it be knowing I won't tell.
Looking to the sky I sigh leaning back. "We have to go, Nixie." Jacob told us.
I frown nodding my head in agreement. We all got up saying our goodbyes. "We will see you in school." Luce said with a wide smile, she will finally be old enough to go to our school.
My frown deepen and I was elbow by my best friend. "Jazzy will." I said all of our group but Jasmine Morris gave me a confuse look. "I am going overseas next year but will be home for Holidays." I explain.
They all hugged me saying to visit our spot on Holidays so we can see each other. I agreed and Jasmine and I left walking home. Jasmine turn off heading her way and I went back to the manor
I walked in on Cole and Phoebe having a moment. "Ello?" I said getting their attention. Then we heard Piper screamed.
We all hit the stairs in a run. "What is it?" Phoebe asked pushing me behind her. Cole then grab my wrist pulling me behind him. I want to drop kick someone now.
"Evil has Book of Shadows." Piper pointed at where the book normally is.
Phoebe start to fidget and looks guilty. Something happen after I left obviously. I wonder what? "Oh, No." Phoebe said before she could say anything else Piper turn on her with a pissed off surprise look.
"'Oh, No,' doesn't quite cover it." Piper snapped pointing at where the book should be but isn't.
Cole is looking there and he is either trying to escape or he is really worried but he turn around starting to talk. "Let me go see what I can find out." he start.
Phoebe grab his shoulder stopping him and he gave her a surprise look. "No, wait. Uh, Piper..." She start not sure how to do this. I pull chair up and sat down since we weren't in any major threat and I just walk the whole way home. "Promise me you are not going to over react?"
Piper ran her hand through her hair panicking. "Is that even possible?" she asked sarcastically. Hey! I am the sarcastic one!
Phoebe held up her finger to stop Piper. "I think that, uh, maybe..." She is trying to form words again and they aren't quite making it out right to her. "Well, it—it might—might be feasible," she looks up to Cole who doesn't know what's going on and even I can tell this. "that, uh..." She losing it again. "Paige BORROW the Book." she held up index fingers on both hands when she said that.
Piper looks like she's about to snap Phoebe in two. Cole wants to get out of this fight like I do. "Wait, why—why would you think that?" Piper yelled the last part trying to connect it together.
Phoebe jumped and gave Piper a stern look. "See, now, this is what I meant about overreacting." she stated dryly. "It's just...-"
"You let Paige take the Book of Shadows out of the Manor?" Cole ask trying to figure out what's going on precisely, poor Cole.
Phoebe is defending herself but digging herself in deeper. "Not 'let her.' It's just she left pretty quick, and..." she motion to the window. "It looks like she might've..." she let her voice drift off.
Piper pointed at the window yelling again. "Out the window?"
Phoebe looks guilty again. "Piper, I don't know what-"
"Phoebe, why would you? How could you even leave her alone with it?" Piper cut her off not letting her talk.
Phoebe said softly. "Well, because she's our sister."
Piper start to laugh a creepy laugh. I jump up and grab Cole's arm hiding behind him really scared. I have never heard her laugh like that before. "Not for long." she snapped.
Piper ran out of the attic with Phoebe looking to me and Cole. She's freaking out running after Piper. Cole moved the chair I was sitting in and turn it to face the door. He wrap his arm around my waist and pull me in to his lap. I curl up to him watching as Phoebe came back in to the room. "Are you coming?" She ask scared.
"To vanquish your sister?" He asked and Phoebe slightly nod. "I think I'll sit this one out. Dence and I have things to talk about anyway." Phoebe kept freaking out running off.
"What we have to talk about?" I ask looking up to him.
He smile down to me a really forced smile. "You going away. You have to know you can't be discover by the Source and things are getting proactive around here so you can't stay here." He stated as his smile fade while he talked.
"I know. Source finds out about me I will be target of desire and want to be switch to evil. I have multi powers like my mom and aunts and I can't show them to anyone. If anyone figures it out I have to tell them all I can do is move things like my mom did but it's about a zillion times weaker than her's." I said matter-of-factly as I went over the rules that him and Leo laid out for me. "Only person that's an innocent that's allowed to know of my powers is Jasmine unless family okay them first. Wait, does that mean I can't use my powers in Hogwarts?" I stop turning to Cole who looks amuse about how bland my voice was then I start to talk normal.
He shook his head in amusement. "You can practice your powers with Lupin and the Giant. You can show your powers if have to but try not to. Depend on what they give you to work with if you can." He said moving my hair from my face. "You look so much like your mother it's scares me sometimes." He stated off hand.
I shrugged my shoulders. "I know." I stated. "Everyone tells me that. Mom and the Aunts are the prettiest women I ever known so I don't mind." I grin and he laugh.
"Okay, so new rules." He stated pulling me closer to him as a protecting way. I smile leaning against him. He is closest thing I have had as a father in so long. I only had Andy for a little while. Darryl though is like a father is more of an Uncle and Leo is like a big brother. Phoebe and Piper were always like big sisters to me. Paige I don't know yet and haven't completely decided on how I feel about her.
I look up to him and sigh softly. "What are they?" I ask softly.
He hugged me tightly breathing slowly. "Be safe. Stay hidden from the Source. If anything at all goes wrong you know how to summon me." He said softly as he held me. "If for any reason you want to come home or go in to hiding summon me and I will make it happen, no matter what." He added.
I smile up to him and softly hit his chest. "Those aren't new rules." I stated with a grin. "Just old ones being reactivated." I added then thought about it. "Beam me up Scotty!" I scream running down the stairs after getting out of his arms.
"Get your ass back here!" Cole yelled at me running down the stairs after me. "I am not threw talking to you, you little Geeky Witch!" He chase after me with a laugh in his voice but wasn't much of one. Most would over look it thinking he's scary or threatening.
I stop when I saw Piper throw someone on to the couch. "Easy, Piper." Leo said standing behind her.
She turn around pissed off and snaps at Leo, I never heard her snap at him like that before. "What, are you protecting him now?"
The man laying on our couch is stuttering badly as he try to talk. "Wh-wha-what the hell going on. And what's wrong with all these chicks?" He stutter out. Yelling the last part. "They've gone crazy."
Piper turn her pissed off more so then I can imagine her ever being. "This chick just saved your ass, you sniveling ingrate." The look on Leo's face looks confuse and hurt as he looks at her.
"Pip?" I call her and she turn to me.
She wave her arm at me. "Phoenix go." She try to dismiss me.
"Piper?" I called her again.
"What?" She yelled at me.
Tears start to form in my eyes. "Aunt Piper, you are scaring me." I told her wrapping my arms around my self and I felt Cole wrap his hands over my shoulders.
He jump up and is ahead taller than Piper making her have to look up at him. "You see what I mean?"
"Who said you could get up?" she grab hold of his shirt and push him hard over the couch.
He is groaning and moaning in pain and Cole pushes me behind him in a protective way. "What's the matter with you?" Leo snapped. "Okay, Honey, look, I don't know what's going on, but we really need to talk."
She gave him a look that made me tighten my grip on back of Cole's shirt. "You know what, Leo? I'm sick of talking." She said walking to him. She's being really scary and I mean worst then demons scary, worst than Woogy-man scary. She then blew up Leo. He turn in to the blue-white lights an then reformed himself.
She walk around the couch to the innocent and Leo is pissed off but keeping his cool. "Now we really need to talk. Piper, listen to me." He start to walk around the couch. "You do not use your powers on a mortal." he stated getting to her face. "Do you hear me?"
Cole kept me tightly behind him as he look at Piper with no emotions, as if he's looking at a demon. "Back away slowly, Leo." He told our whitelighter, and my uncle.
Leo look to him confuse and slightly hurt. "What?" he asked.
Cole stuck his hands out as if it's obvious looking at her hands as I saw them myself. She has black claws coming out of them where her nails once were. "She's becoming a Fury." He stated. Leo look to me and I pointed at her hands and he look down at them. "There's no reasoning with her now." he stated looking up at Piper's face.
Leo got on the other side of her as he talked. "Piper, you're a good witch. Do you hear me? Fight this." Leo tried to reason.
She stuck her hand up and touch his face. For a moment I thought she was back till she pushes him over the couch. The innocent start to scream. "Oh, God, help me!" He scream as she slice at him. Cole form a low grade energy ball and threw it at her enough to make her stop attacking the innocent as she tries to smoke him.
"Cole!" Phoebe yelled.
Cole start to defend himself but Piper gave him a dead look. "That wasn't very nice." She said darkly. She then look to me as she turn in to smoke.
Smoke form around me as I felt clawed hands grab my shoulders. "Cole!" I scream as she turn us both in to smoke.
We came to a dark ally with two women with strange markings on their faces. One with black hair and slightly shorter than Aunt Piper and the other with red hair and taller than her. She held me tight in her hands and I look over the women who circle me. They had Kurt Wagner, yes X-Men, like hands. Three big fingers instead of five small and each finger has the black claw things, talon like.
I look at them each and shiver slightly. Piper's nails, almost talons, digged into my shoulders making me whimper in pain but I am to scare to fling them away from me. "I've been looking for you." she said darkly as the two then look down to me. The redhead got close to me and breath out smoke and I start to cough as it enter me.
I kept coughing as the dark hair one holds me where I can't move. She hits my head hard enough for me to make me black out. Not sure how long I've been Knocked Out I start to come through and open my eyes slowly, start to blink my eyes as I whimper as I look to my aunt. They are changing her, putting that black stuff on her face in same strange design as they have it. She looks so much different now. It's getting darker now then it was when we came so I know a good bit of time pass, probably.
Piper is wearing an outfit like them and as I sat up I notice I am too. Things are getting hard to control cause when I heard someone calling us. 'Blood to blood, I summon thee.' echo through out the area. The two other Fury look over to me and smile. 'Blood to blood, return to me.' they finish their voice echoing. I look down to my hands and saw I had the claws like things too. I am wearing the strange trampy outfit as is Piper and my hair is different. I felt my face and I felt groves from the black stuff.
A strong hatred over took me. Fury of everything bad that ever happen to me. I growl and the others, even Piper smile to me. "I know where evil dwells." Piper spoke in a dangerous tone.
"We must be careful. Phoebe is smart." I said standing up. Why would I say that?! I am not going to rat out. "We must trick and bid them to split." I added as we all smoked out.
"Concentrate on the demon." The redhead hiss at me. I can't! He is my Cole! I can't! I cried in my head.
I did concentrate on him though. My inner me was fighting with my outer me and outer winning. Me and the redhead shot in through the front door and Phoebe attacked the redhead avoiding me as I stay concentrating on the only other man I saw like a father other then Andy. I kept trying to think back to the fun things he done with me and he showed me how he is the one that taught me how to control my powers and use a sword. None of this is helping. Nothing is changing the outer me still winning!
"Nice decoy, Piper. Two points." Phoebe said as she was in fighting stance. She then kicked both of them as a low grade energy ball hit me.
Cole pass out from the pain. Phoebe ran to him trying to awake him as I felt my body start to move against my will again. "Lamp!" I heard Paige yelled then a lamp hit back of redhead Fury making everyone turn to Paige growling and hissing at her.
Cole shot the red head and then we all turn to him again. He hit the tall black hair one then it was just Piper and I. Piper pull Phoebe away from Cole scratching him. He scream out in pain.
The outer me stopped concentrating on him and look around as the inner me try to take control again. My Cole! No one hurts MY COLE! I yelled at myself fighting harder as he saw my eyes for a moment. "Cole!" I scream at him as tears left my eyes and he shimmer behind me.
"Cole is not your problem, Piper, and you know this, let's do this." Piper turn to Phoebe and start to attack. Phoebe using her hand to hand combat keeping Piper at bay from hurting her.
"Book!" Paige yelled making me turn to her. I hiss showing my teeth but then I fought back.
"Cole." I whimper trying to get free of what's inside of me.
"Please let there be something in here." Paige begged as she flipped through the book.
He wrap his arms around me. "Stay in control, Prudence, I got Phoenix!" He yelled to Phoebe as he shimmer us out.
We land in the cemetery and the outer me got control pushing him off of me. I hiss at him but he just look to me that look that always got me to break. It was like a kicked puppy look and I could never lie to him when he gave me that look. "You are angry that Paige is with us not your mom." He said pointing it out as he kept me at bay. "Phoenix Prudence Halliwell, I have known you for so long I know you better than anyone else. Your aunts know you but you trust me with secrets you never would tell them. You always say that I'm your favorite uncle and you always go to me with nightmares. Phoenix, I know you. You don't hate Paige you are confuse, you don't hate your mother you just want her back. You need to come back to us. You need to see that we need you."
As I look to him I start to cry harder. "Cole!" He wrap his arms around me and shimmer back to the manor as I start to change back.
"Dence!" Phoebe cried as we saw Leo orb the two other aunts.
"Where is he taking them?" Cole ask getting down and helping Phoebe up.
"To where her anger really lies." She said sadly and look to me. "I am not going to ask of your's. I knew Cole would be able to bring you back to us. He is your weakness as much as mine." she smile pulling me to her.
I went upstairs and took a hot shower then went and crawled on to the couch to Phoebe and Cole. They let me get between them as we watch the fire flicker in the fireplace. No idea why Phoebe keeps starting a fire in middle of summer but hey that's Phoebe for you.
I fell asleep there and the next day Piper woke me up. I was asleep in Phoebe's bed curl up to her and Cole laying next to me. "Hey, want to help me out?" She ask softly. I look to the sleeping couple and nod my head.
As we were cooking Phoebe came down and look to us. "I know you did." She motion to me then look to Piper. "Did you sleep?" She asked Piper.
"Yeah." that sounds like the truth. "Actually, better than I have in a while." She admitted.
Phoebe looks around slowly. "It's quiet, isn't it?" She asked as she did. "Early and late." She sighs softly and sadly. "It's just really, really quiet."
"Prue was always the first one up..." Piper started and look to me with that sad look.
I spoke then. "And last one down." I said sipping my coffee as I close my eyes tightly.
Piper start to talk again "It's strange, the things that you miss." She laughs softly but still sad. Phoebe start to sip her own coffee. "So..." Piper changing subjects. "How scary was I?"
"And I?" I ask piping in wanting to know.
"Heck I've seen worse. I've been worse." she then hesitate. "But, uh..." She then took a deep breath "Paige..." she trying to form her words right.
"She completely freaked." Piper finish.
Phoebe went to Paige's back. "No, uh, she handled it...better than most would I believe." she added the last part as an after thought. "She saved your life." she then pointed out. "As Cole saved Dence's. You two are more like Father and Daughter you know, now I think of it." Phoebe added looking back to me. I felt my face heat up and I hid in to my mug. Phoebe grin at her accomplishment "She is definitely a Halliwell, last name or no."
"I guess I haven't been the most welcoming..." Piper start and I smile as I raise my eyebrow thinking back to way she has been treating Paige. "It's just I miss Prue so much. It's hard to imagine opening myself up to loving someone else. With everything we face in our everyday lives, love just feels like an invitation for more pain." She admit.
Phoebe grab her hand and holds it close as she did. "So maybe, um..." She start trying to word things carefully around Piper for a while. "maybe you don't start with love." She said with a smile. "Maybe you just start with 'Thanks.'"
Phoebe then had erans to run and me and Piper turn to me and smile, "Come on." she said with a smile.
Muffins, regret, or apology. Baking is our outlet that we know will be us forever. After we were done it was close to noon. We walked in to the office where Paige works. The social serves building is a tight place, to many people in one place. I tug on Piper's arm and point to Paige. She was holding a little brown basket with cloth over top.
We walk straight up to her and place to basket down. Paige looks shock as she looks at us. "Muffins. Thanks." She said as she smile to us again. Piper has a real smile.
"Busywork. I'm best in the kitchen, anyway." She said trying to cover herself some and I roll my eyes. "Prue was the one that likes to, uh, chase demons." Piper said in memory of her own.
I roll my eyes and walked around to Paige hugging her. "Oh, Billy, why don't you show Dence around for me?" She said to a cute boy that looks no older then twenty. He has light brown hair and perfect skin.
"Okay, come on." He said to me though slightly confuse. I smile running over to him after hugging Paige again which she laugh. "So how you know Paige?" He asked me and I smile back to my aunt.
I smile wider looking up to him. "She's my aunt." I stated simply with a shrug. "We are family." I whisper to myself.
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